Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86812d4a9a1dce3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 21:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ba98fd3d25ccc8b4cef12ca37e23e43b SHA-1: b427e3122e0d22347855dd8ab167aee61b8523c7 SHA-256: 86812d4a9a1dce3e374a7d604bada832bc40c294ecaf5fb33642cf7e5480228c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs, such as the one hosted on massagetheory.ca, are likely intended to deliver secondary payloads or lead to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e81e7b3171aa0abf26fa30d9830c07f/jijasewiwotutulujad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://boracayg.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_79E2E81CEADF12AC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/862520962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimaglobal.net/ckupload/files/nazarovafiwuremanizopakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/16486033532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektor-bezpeki.com/userfiles/files/98033741199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volandovia.it/public/fileeditor/file/butefeviduzifojawitus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614046295ced9---wugonexalumoloxivego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebsite.btccorp.vn/uploads/files/9087203920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///62627649123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufiwimufutozegonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/tonibolevuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1mosref.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8795210350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321cbf30a4f---xikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/sogikudabowosokajusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://25630638.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32692306755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopoparanegevogefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiokuda1.com/contents/files/kegozutulifewemutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/dajutarojozeviweposaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/mowamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/gisalawujona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148415b66933---62778501327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cezartravel.hu/userfiles/file/gigipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614475fa98f1d---92129042577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.c-zentrix.com/ALCC/mail_attachments/multitenant-ws-01/1/1631510833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161465d6978918---73636454924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=photoshop+express+apk+proPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC62 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 2f1db4e572f48e810d3491ecd4aa28392879c23d9b97eb3198751ca415673ded
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D5 17504 bytes
SHA-256: 12d2f10dee85cf557c25b2d14b02a81e198c3d5ee41895ec7a942c06765167d9
font_02_sfnt_off00012173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12173 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1